BLAZE 26 Jun 2006 01:18 am
Robert Penner joins the Flash team
I’ve been meaning to post about this for several weeks now. I’m very excited to announce that the uber-talented and extremely well known Robert Penner, best known for his easing equations for ActionScript-based animation, has joined the Flash engineering team.
Robert is hard at work on several exciting new features planned for the next release of the Flash authoring tool, code-named “BLAZE.” I can’t tell you specifically what he’s working on, but I assure you that it will be one of the most exciting new features in the history of Flash. He and several of our other talented engineers were tasked with two problems to solve: 1) make it easier to create complex animations that are re-usable, and 2) allow designers and animators to work better with ActionScript coders.
I’m really excited to have Robert join our team as I think he is one of the most talented and creative developers that I have ever worked with. He will be key in helping us take the Flash authoring tool to the next level.
I am trying to get Robert set up with an official Adobe blog so he can start sharing some insights from within the Flash team. Stay tuned…
on 26 Jun 2006 at 2:18 am 1.Abdul Qabiz said …
Wow! That’s great news…
-abdul
on 26 Jun 2006 at 2:26 am 2.Serge said …
I just fell of my chair… Excellent news! Congrats to both Robert and the Flash team!
on 26 Jun 2006 at 2:32 am 3.tokiga lok said …
That’s great news! Really nice bice!
on 26 Jun 2006 at 3:06 am 4.Antti Kupila said …
Jeesh, that’s great news - for Adobe, and the developers!
on 26 Jun 2006 at 3:47 am 5.keith peters said …
Congrats Robert. And congrats Adobe!
on 26 Jun 2006 at 6:00 am 6.Daniel said …
Great news!
Django ( http://www.djangoproject.com ) solved the communication between designers and developers in the right way IMHO, I’m curious to see which direction Flash will be taking.
on 26 Jun 2006 at 6:12 am 7.mh said …
Hmmm could a 3d engine be in the works…
on 26 Jun 2006 at 7:01 am 8.zeh said …
That is indeed great news - next level all right. I can’t wait to see what RP+Adobe has in store for us.
on 26 Jun 2006 at 7:03 am 9.rodrigo said …
congrats for the flash team for the huge hire.
wow !!! a 3d engine would be awsome! 3d ! 3d!
on 26 Jun 2006 at 10:09 am 10.simon said …
Excellent news, great things will be in store for sure and I’m looking forward to seeing Robert’s Blog
huge congrats
on 26 Jun 2006 at 12:21 pm 11.Kirit said …
Congrats Robert Penner!
Now we can expect Robert Penner’s Programming Blaze to release soon.
on 27 Jun 2006 at 2:00 am 12.Bob said …
He that’s great. Would something like a design/animation to code translater be a fair guess?
on 27 Jun 2006 at 3:41 pm 13.Joel - Newmediasoup said …
Great news Mike. Congrats Robert!
on 28 Jun 2006 at 1:23 am 14.yifa said …
I have read his book,it’s great book,Thanks
on 22 Feb 2007 at 3:09 pm 15.Josh Dunford said …
Penner is a genius. Guy has perfect pitch too.